An Athol man was taken into custody on Saturday as part of an ongoing drug investigation.
The incident occurred at about 3:50 p.m. on Saturday at 700 Boylston Street in Boston, where police were surveilling a man, who was known to have two active warrants, as he sat outside the area and observed him ingest drugs via a glass pipe as they approached.
Once near the man, he pushed an officer and attempted to run away, causing a scuffle in which the man dropped a small pouch onto the ground before slipping out of his jacket and escaping…